To the madbar and back again : : studies in the languages, archaeology, and cultures of Arabia dedicated to Michael C.A. Macdonald / / by Laila Nehme, Ahmad Al-Jallad [editors].

• TeilnehmendeR: Nehmé, Laïla.; Al-Jallad, Ahmad.; Macdonald, M. C. A.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English; German; French
• Series: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 92.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (758 pages).
• Notes: Includes a bibliography of Michael C A. Macdonald.

Michael C.A. Macdonald is one of the great names of Arabian Studies. He pioneered the field of Ancient North Arabian and made invaluable contributions to the history of Arabia and the nomads of the Near East, their languages, and their scripts. This volume gathers thirty-two innovative contributions from leading scholars in the field to honor the career of Michael C.A. Macdonald, covering the languages and scripts of ancient Arabia, their history and archaeology, the Hellenistic Near East, and the modern dialects and languages of Arabia. The book is an essential part of the library of any who study the Near East, its languages and its cultures.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Les artisans et professions « libérales » dans le domaine nabatéen / Laïla Nehmé -- Anmerkungen zum safaitischen und althebräischen Onomastikon / Walter W. Müller -- Safaitic Prayers, Curses, Grief and More from Wadi Salhub—North-Eastern Jordan / Hani Hayajneh -- Notes on ḥwb in Safaitic / Chiara Della Puppa -- Traditional Music or Religious Ritual? Ancient Rock Art Illumined by Bedouin Custom / Ali al-Manaser -- The Formularies and Their Historical Implications: Two Examples from Ancient South Arabian Epigraphic Documentation / Alessandra Avanzini -- Ancient South Arabian Graffiti from Shabathān (Governorate of al-Bayḍāʾ, Yemen) / Alessia Prioletta -- Schreiben, meißeln, Fehler machen. Zur Funktion von Schrift im öffentlichen Raum im antiken Südarabien / Peter Stein -- The Phonemes ẓ and ṭ in the Dadanitic Inscriptions / Fokelien Kootstra -- Dadanitic Inscriptions from Jabal al-Khraymāt (Madāʾin Ṣāliḥ) / María del Carmen Hidalgo-Chacón Díez -- Un sanctuaire de montagne : Mushannaf / Maurice Sartre -- Un pasteur et un soldat ? Deux inscriptions grecques d’ époque romaine à l’ est du Jabal Ḥawrān / François Villeneuve -- Méharistes et cavaliers romains dans le désert jordanien / Pierre-Louis Gatier -- Goras, sanglier ou jeune lion (ou onagre) ? / Jean-Baptiste Yon -- A Lead Syriac Protective Talisman / Sebastian Brock -- Two New Arabic Inscriptions: Arabian Castles and Christianity in the Umayyad Period / Robert Hoyland -- The Etymology of Ḥattā / Ahmad Al-Jallad -- Are Libyco-Berber Horizontal ṯ and Vertical h the Same Sign? / Marijn van Putten -- The Outer Wall of Taymāʾ and Its Dating to the Bronze Age / Arnulf Hausleiter -- Pottery from the “Midianite Heartland”? On Tell Kheleifeh and Qurayyah Painted Ware. New Evidence from the Harvard Semitic Museum / Marta Luciani -- A Caravan Merchant Family of ‘Antioch on the Chrysorhoas’. A Glimpse of Hellenistic Gerasa as a Caravanserai / Ina Kehrberg(-Ostrasz) -- The Visit of Mālik bin Muʿāwiyah, King of Kindah and Maḏḥiǧ to the Himyarite King Šammar Yuharʿiš in Maʾrib / Mohammed Maraqten -- Der rituelle Umzug des Yadaʿʾil Ḏarīḥ nach Ṣirwāḥ / Norbert Nebes -- Sedentism of Arabs in the 8th–4th Centuries BC / Israel Ephʿal -- Reflections on Arab Leadership in Late Antiquity / Greg Fisher -- A Paradise in the Desert: Iram at the Intersection of One Thousand and One Nights, Quranic Exegesis, and Arabian History / Orhan Elmaz -- Mourning for the Dead and the Beginning of Idolatry in the Kitāb al-Aṣnām and the Spelunca Thesaurorum—an Unknown Parallel to Sūrat at-Takāṯur (Q102)? / Konstantin M. Klein -- Temple Inscriptions and “the Death of the God(s)” / John F. Healey -- ‘The Conception of Jesus’ / Hannah M. Cotton Paltiel -- Drink Long and Drink in Peace: Singing to Livestock at Water in Dhofar, Sultanate of Oman / Miranda J. Morris and Sālim ʕAwaḏ̣ Ahmad al-Shaḥri -- South Arabian Sibilants and the Śḥerɛ̄t s̃ ~ š Contrast / Alex Bellem and Janet C.E. Watson -- Was There a “Bedouinisation” of Arabia? Probably Not, at Least in the Way It Has So Far Been Portrayed / William Lancaster and Fidelity Lancaster -- Index.